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Source: <<A>> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203808

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on the other. There are two Stair-Cases leading up to two Rooms of the same dimensions with the Hall and Salon, but double the height, cov'd and adorn'd with Fret-work. On each side of these Rooms are alcov'd Bedchambers, and over them four other Apartments.

PLATE XLIII.
A Draught of a House made for a Gentleman in 1720. The Front is 71 feet by 54 in depth. Here is an Octagon Hall, on the right hand of which there is a Parlour, and on the left the great Stairs. Right forward from the Hall there is a Dining-Room of 28 feet by 25, having a Withdrawing-Room and Back-Stairs on one side, and a Library on the other. This Story is 14 feet high, and the Rooms over them are 18 feet, and cov'd. Th Fronts are uncommon, but have good effect.

PLATE XLIV.
The Plan, Front and Section of a House made for a Gentleman in the same Year, being 91 feet square. You ascend to a Portico of the Corinthian Order by 12 steps, and enter a Hall of 22 feet by 33 and 10 feet high, and right forward an Octagon Salon of 33 feet and 40 feet high, lighted by Semicircular Windows as express'd in the Section. Beyond the Salon is a Withdrawing-Room of the same dimensions with the Hall. At each end of the Hall and With-Drawing-Room there are Rooms 22 feet square, with Closets 10 feet 6 inches by 15 feet, and Intersoles over them. The Octagon Room may be private or publick at pleasure, because of the Passages of Communication betwixt the Hall and Withdrawing-Room. The Bedchambers over this Floor are also render'd very convenient by Passages, which are lighted by round Openings in the Freeze of the great Room.

PLATE XLV.
The Plan, Front and Section of a House design'd for a Gentleman in the Country. The Front is 26 by 95 feet deep. You rise by 12 Steps to a Portico, and then enter a Hall of 30 feet by 22, and go straight forward into a Salon of 55 feet by 33 and 40 feet high, lighted from above by 16 Windows; the Sides of the Salon are adorn'd with Pilasters, Niches, Figures and other Ornaments. From it you pass into
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